THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

BIRTHDAYS:

1569 Jakob Hassler, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Uriel Valadeau

1661 Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist who invented early industrial machinery for mining.

1667 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, Austrian composer and lutenist. Suite in E-minor

1778 Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era.

1856 J. J. Thomson, English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.

1867 Antoon van Welie, Dutch painter.

1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, American radio pioneer inventor (FM).

1913 Alfred Bester, American sci-fi author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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SUGGESTED READING FOR YOUR OLDER CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WHEN THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

PUBLISHED IN 2006: Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE:

Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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